From the Monticello site:
"Before his death, Thomas Jefferson left explicit instructions regarding the monument to be erected over his grave. In this document (undated), Jefferson supplied a sketch of the shape of the marker, and the epitaph with which he wanted it to be inscribed:
"...on the faces of the Obelisk the following inscription, & not a word more:
Here was buried
Thomas Jefferson
Author of the Declaration of American Independence
of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom
Father of the University of Virginia
"because by these," he explained, "as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered."
Jefferson further instructed that the monument was to be made of "coarse stone...that no one might be tempted hereafter to destroy if for the value of the materials."[1]
Perhaps a reading of:
1) the Declaration of Independence from the edicts of a government and King George III and a people's right to reject them, including a statement of the Creator-endowed life, rights and liberty of individuals, and an acknowledgement of Divine Providence and the Supreme Judge of the world;
2) the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom; and,
3) Jefferson's own record of Board Minutes from the UVA indicating that THE FEDERALIST essays were to be taught in its law school as the best explanations of "the People's" Constitution--
these three things for which Jefferson wished most to be remembered would, in themselves, be instructive for all Americans as to vast difference in philosophy and leadership of President Jefferson and that of President Obama.
The largest part of the Declaration of Independence lists the ways that King George III had violated the rights of the colonists--but most of King George's actions are trivial compared to the sorts of things the current administration does on a daily basis (with the complicity of most of the media).